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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations

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About this listen

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's original short stories.

The 12 dramatisations are 'A Scandal in Bohemia'; 'The Red-Headed League'; 'A Case of Identity'; 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery'; 'The Five Orange Pips'; 'The Man with the Twisted Lip'; 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle'; 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'; 'The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb'; 'The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor'; 'The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet'; and 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches'.

In these 12 stories, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson investigate a compromising photograph, a murder case with Australian connections, a disreputable opium den, a Christmas goose, a ruined ancestral estate, a disastrous wedding day, a house with frightening secrets and several other baffling circumstances.

Among the large supporting cast are Sarah Badel, Andrew Sachs, James Grout, James Wilby, Sam West, Stephen Tompkinson and Imogen Stubbs.

Public Domain (P)2017 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd Mystery Police Procedurals

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really like this but its divided into hundreds of chapters of a few minutes each, just labelled by their number rather than the name of the story. makes it really hard to listen to! please change this

Great but annoying chapter divisions and titles

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Excellent well structured audiobook. BBC will always do a brilliant job. This version has multiple stories that excellently played out and put together

Adv of Sherlock Holmes bbc radio

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Finding ourselves with a long journey to work and school, my young son and I have been working our way through classic literature and this month was the turn of Sherlock Holmes. We have really enjoyed the stories, although they haven’t quite had the test of time in some instances they have been a pleasure to listen to not least because of the fabulous car

My son and I loved it.

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I really enjoyed this book, it is not my usual choice of books and I fancied a change of pace. It was very gripping and enjoyable, so much that I now want to get the other sherlock holmes tales in the series...

Brilliant !!!

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1) A Scandal in Bohemia: Chapter 1 - Chapter 15

2) The Red-Headed League: Chapter 16 - Chapter 30

3) A Case of Identity: Chapter 31 - Chapter 45

4) The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Chapter 46 - Chapter 60

5) The Five Orange Pips: Chapter 61 - Chapter 75

6) The Man with the Twisted Lip: Chapter 76 - Chapter 90

7) The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle: Chapter 91 - Chapter 105

8) The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Chapter 106 - Chapter 120

9) The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb: Chapter 121 - Chapter 135

10) The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor: Chapter 136 - Chapter 150

11) The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet: Chapter 151 - Chapter 165

12) The Adventure of the Copper Beeches: Chapter 166 - Chapter 180

Titles and chapter numbers of individual stories

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These adaptations are the best comfort -listening possible. The cast is excellent and completely conveys the world of Holmes and Watson creating such a vivid world it is hard not to believe in some parallel world they exist. These are brilliant adaptations of the stories and I can only totally recommend these dramatizations.

Perfect Watson and Holmes dramatization.

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Good characterisation. I particularly enjoyed Watson being portrayed as sensible, rather than a buffoon. Loved Sherlock's laughter! Chapters were very short - perhaps Audible could invent a way of specifying 1 or 2 chapters to play, rather than a time.

Great stories, well told

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Excellent radio dramatisation as always. I'm not a big fan of the BBC these days for many reasons, however, when it comes to classic drama no one else comes close in my opinion. This is a must for all afficionados of this genre in general, and Holmesians in particular.

Simply wonderful!

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A collection of cleverly abridged Sherlock Holmes stories superbly acted by Clive Morrison and Michael Williams. These are a joy to listen too capturing a golden age of radio drama

The perfect and definitive Holmes

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no chapters for new stories so no way to navigate around the different stories without guesswork. Why Audible?

fantastic audiobook, however...

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